| Re: Big Trouble in Little GUI [message #66516] |
Sun, 17 May 2009 10:40 |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
Registered: November 1996
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On May 16, 10:30 am, Kathleen <101ferr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows of an add on program or extension that
> would help resolve this problem. Possibly a known font family (and
> scale) that closely represents the standard Windows system font. Or is
> there anyway that I can include my system font (Tahoma) in the
> application and load that, regardless of the machine the program is
> running on? This way I know the font selected will always be
> available. (That would be prefered if at all possible)
Linux and Mac are able to use true type fonts, so in principle there
is nothing stopping you from copying over your Tahoma.ttf font from
Windows to Linux/Mac for testing purposes. If you need to distribute
an application like this, that process may be a killer.
> Or has some genius wrote a program to make other platforms have the
> appearance of a Windows GUI? (Yes, I know... I am probably dreaming)
You could force your users to use a Windows virtual machine like
VMware! :-(
> I am just trying to reduce the amount of neccessary reformatting. I
> have been buiding this application for almost a year now,
Some lessons are learned the hard way. If you really need such tight
formatting control with native widgets, you will probably need to
reformat your GUI for each platform separately.
Craig
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